Friday, January 16, 2009

I'm sure you've all read the details of the astonishing Hudson River Landing yesterday. The passenger interviews are chilling to me. Its not often that you get passenger accounts from something like this, as there are rarely survivors when a plane drops out of the sky minutes after take-off. I keep putting myself on that plane and trying to imagine what that must of have been like to hear the words "Brace for Impact" and then be standing on the plane's wings just minutes later in the middle of the Hudson. Unbelievable. I want that pilot on my team.

"In a lot of ways, the lack of fatalities and mostly successful outcome should underscore just how safe flying is. Somewhere on the order of 15,000 commercial flights depart every day in this country, and yet two full years have elapsed since our last commercial airline fatality. That's a record. More than seven years since the last large-scale crash. Also a record."